Glidos wrote:Thanks for the info. This is the first conclusive report that that v1.18 fixes the GF2 problem. […]
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Thanks for the info. This is the first conclusive report that that v1.18 fixes the GF2 problem.
The daft thing is though that almost everybody that could be helped by this are going to be stumped by the install.
A trick that might work: copy glidvesa.exe from the Glidos folder to the root of your C drive; start Glidos, but don't press the "Start" button; put glidos in windowed mode; start a DOS box
and type
D:
C:\gldvesa.exe install.exe
Obviously change D: to something else if that's not your CD drive's letter.
Might work. Might not. Depends on what VESA mode the install program uses.
Well to test for you I've just tried another install of TR1 using the above workround but it just produced a Windows error message - ("NTVDM.EXE has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.").
It still looks like the crashing of the installer is taking place when the prog is trying to change video modes. I decided to try changing your settings to full-screen instead, to see what happened, and that time the DOS4GW copyright message came up but then froze at that point, before the NTVDM message appeared.
Now that's what used to happen to TR1 itself before the latest Glidos fixes etc. (less the NTVDM message.)
Incidentally, if it helps, when I try running the plain installer on my Geforce 2mx/WinXP in windowed mode, DOS4GW comes up, the prog changes graphics mode to a full-screen but then goes blank and freezes.
Maybe "Unregistered"'s SIS chipset suffers from the same probs as Geforce 2's.